Why I Trust the Bible (with Bill Mounce)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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How do we know the Bible is trustworthy? Are the Gospels really written by the people who they are attributed to? What about contradictions? In this interview, Sean and Scott talk with professor Bill Mounce about his latest book Why I Trust the Bible. Bill is the founder and President of BiblicalTraining.org, serves on the Committee for Bible Translation (which is responsible for the NIV translation of the Bible), and has written the best-selling biblical Greek textbook, Basics of Bibli...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Think Bivocally, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from
0:06.3	Taublet School Theology Biola University. I'm your host Sean McDowell,
0:10.3	Professor of Apologetics. And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty,
0:14.1	and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:15.8	Today we've got a topic very dear to my heart
0:18.1	and you know to yours since you listen to the ThinkBibbically
0:20.5	podcast.
0:21.5	The title of the book is from Dr. William Mounds and it's called
0:25.2	Why I Trust The Bible. And the subtitle is Answers to Real Questions and Doubts
0:31.0	people have about the Bible.
0:33.0	It's an excellent book and we're going to dive into some of the big questions and doubts you probably have.
0:38.0	Dr. Mounce, thanks so much for coming on.
0:40.0	It's good to be here.
0:41.0	Let me just start by asking you some of your own training and experience that you bring to the study
0:46.9	of the Bible's reliability.
0:48.9	Well, I did my academic work at Aberdeen University with some of the people that teach with you guys at
0:56.0	Talbot and then I went and taught for 10 years at a Zeus Pacific University which is right
1:01.3	down the street from Talbot took a break and then I went to
1:04.9	Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary in Boston to run the Greek language program and do some teaching.
1:12.0	And it was during that time that I got involved in Bible translation and in terms of the background of the book it probably more of my experience in Bible translation has affected the book than anything else.
1:27.2	I was the New Testament chair of the ESV for 10 years and I've been on the committee for
1:32.2	Bible translation that controls the NIV for about 11 years.
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